Isaiah 7:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings.

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  • Isa 8:4 : 4 for before the youth doth know to cry, My father, and My mother, one taketh away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Asshur.'
  • Deut 1:39 : 39 `And your infants, of whom ye have said, For a prey they are, and your sons who have not known to-day good and evil, they go in thither, and to them I give it, and they possess it;
  • 2 Kgs 15:29-30 : 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel hath Tiglath-Pileser king of Asshur come, and taketh Ijon, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and removeth them to Asshur. 30 And make a conspiracy doth Hoshea son of Elah against Pekah son of Remaliah, and smiteth him, and putteth him to death, and reigneth in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah.
  • 2 Kgs 16:9 : 9 And hearken unto him doth the king of Asshur, and the king of Asshur goeth up unto Damascus, and seizeth it, and removeth `the people of' it to Kir, and Rezin he hath put to death.
  • Isa 9:11 : 11 And Jehovah setteth the adversaries of Rezin on high above him, And his enemies he joineth together,
  • Isa 17:1-3 : 1 The burden of Damascus. Lo, Damascus is taken away from `being' a city, And it hath been a heap -- a ruin. 2 Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling. 3 And ceased hath the fortress from Ephraim, And the kingdom from Damascus, And the remnant of Aram are as the honour of the sons of Israel, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!
  • Hos 5:9 : 9 Ephraim is for a desolation in a day of reproof, Among the tribes of Israel I have made known a sure thing.
  • Amos 1:3-5 : 3 And thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their threshing Gilead with sharp-pointed irons, 4 And I have sent a fire against the house of Hazael, And it hath consumed the palaces of Ben-Hadad. 5 And I have broken the bar of Damascus, And cut off the inhabitant from Bikat-Aven, And a holder of a sceptre from Beth-Eden, And removed have been the people of Aram to Kir, said Jehovah.
  • Jonah 4:11 : 11 and I -- have not I pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than twelve myriads of human beings, who have not known between their right hand and their left -- and much cattle!'

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    15Butter and honey he doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good.

  • Isa 7:17
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    17Jehovah bringeth on thee, and on thy people, And on the house of thy father, Days that have not come, Even from the day of the turning aside of Ephraim from Judah, By the king of Asshur.

  • Isa 8:4-5
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    4for before the youth doth know to cry, My father, and My mother, one taketh away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Asshur.'

    5And Jehovah addeth to speak unto me again, saying:

  • Eccl 10:16
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    16Wo to thee, O land, when thy king `is' a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.

  • Prov 22:6
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    6Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

  • Isa 3:4-5
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    4And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.

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  • Amos 7:17
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    17therefore thus said Jehovah: Thy wife in the city doth go a-whoring, And thy sons and thy daughters by sword do fall, And thy land by line is apportioned, And thou on an unclean land diest, And Israel certainly removeth from off its land.'

  • Isa 7:22
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    22And it hath come to pass, From the abundance of the yielding of milk he eateth butter, For butter and honey doth every one eat Who is left in the heart of the land.

  • Mic 7:13
    71%

    13And the land hath been for a desolation, Because of its inhabitants, Because of the fruit of their doings.

  • Isa 1:19-20
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    70%

    19If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,

    20And if ye refuse, and have rebelled, `By' the sword ye are consumed, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.

  • Deut 7:4
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    4for he doth turn aside thy son from after Me, and they have served other gods, and the anger of Jehovah hath burned against you, and hath destroyed thee hastily.

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    2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For Jehovah hath spoken: Sons I have nourished and brought up, And they -- they transgressed against Me.

  • Eccl 4:13
    70%

    13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.

  • Isa 14:21
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    21Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world `with' cities.

  • Jer 2:19
    70%

    19Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing `Is' thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, And My fear not being on thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

  • Jer 2:7
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    7Yea, I bring you in to a land of fruitful fields, To eat its fruit and its goodness, And ye come in and defile My land, And Mine inheritance have made an abomination.

  • Deut 1:39
    70%

    39`And your infants, of whom ye have said, For a prey they are, and your sons who have not known to-day good and evil, they go in thither, and to them I give it, and they possess it;

  • Mic 6:16
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    16And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!

  • Hos 11:6
    70%

    6Grievous hath been the sword in his cities, And it hath ended his bars, and consumed -- from their own counsels.

  • Hos 4:6
    70%

    6Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

  • Jer 17:4
    70%

    4And thou hast let go -- even through thyself, Of thine inheritance that I gave to thee, And I have caused thee to serve thine enemies, In a land that thou hast not known, For a fire ye have kindled in Mine anger, Unto the age it doth burn.

  • Jer 16:3
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    3For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers -- those bearing them, And of their fathers -- those begetting them in this land:

  • Isa 28:9
    69%

    9By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,

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    69%

    3Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am devising against this family evil, From which ye do not remove your necks, Nor walk loftily, for a time of evil it `is'.

  • Jer 18:7
    69%

    7The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,

  • Prov 20:11
    69%

    11Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.

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    7`And, now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Why are ye doing great evil unto your own souls, to cut off to you man and woman, infant and suckling, from the midst of Judah, so as not to leave to you a remnant:

  • Prov 1:29
    69%

    29Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

  • 1 Sam 12:25
    69%

    25and if ye really do evil, both ye and your king are consumed.'

  • Hos 10:14-15
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    69%

    14And rise doth a tumult among thy people, And all thy fortresses are spoiled, As the spoiling of Shalman of Beth-Arbel, In a day of battle, Mother against sons dashed in pieces.

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  • Jer 6:21
    69%

    21Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I do give to this people stumbling blocks, And stumbled against them have fathers and sons together, The neighbour and his friend do perish.

  • Jer 6:19
    69%

    19Hear, O earth, lo, I am bringing evil on this people, The fruit of their devices, For to My words they gave no attention, And My law -- they kick against it.

  • Lev 26:29
    69%

    29`And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat.

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    69%

    15`And it hath been, as there hath come upon you all the good thing which Jehovah your God hath spoken unto you, so doth Jehovah bring upon you the whole of the evil thing, till His destroying you from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you;

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    15A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

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    68%

    9That a rebellious people `is' this, sons -- liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.

  • Isa 39:7
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    7and of thy sons who come forth from thee, whom thou begettest, they take, and they have been eunuchs in a palace of the king of Babylon.'

  • Hos 8:3
    68%

    3Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him.

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    68%

    32till my coming in, and I have taken you unto a land like your own land, a land of corn and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive, and honey, and live, and die not; and do not hearken unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, Jehovah doth deliver us.

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    68%

    29In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.

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    6For thus said Jehovah, Concerning the house of the king of Judah: Gilead `art' thou to Me -- head of Lebanon, If not -- I make thee a wilderness, Cities not inhabited.

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    16Thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am bringing in evil unto this place and on its inhabitants, all the words of the book that the king of Judah hath read,

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    50a nation -- fierce of countenance -- which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour;

  • Isa 1:4
    68%

    4Ah, sinning nation, a people heavy `with' iniquity, A seed of evil doers, sons -- corrupters! They have forsaken Jehovah, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have gone away backward.